Baghead is a 2023 horror film directed by Alberto Corredor and starring Freya Allan, Peter Mullan, Anne Müller, Ruby Barker, and Jeremy Irvine.
After inheriting a pub from her late father, a young woman discovers an entity that can help people speak to the dead, but at a cost.
Owen refuses and sends him away before recording a video in which he says that he is done with the pub, and warning any potential future owner that the building comes complete with guardianship of someone that lives in the basement.
Owen's estranged daughter Iris is called from her home in London to identify her father's body.
Once there, she is approached by a solicitor, who offers to be executor of Owen's will, making the transition process to new ownership simple.
Iris stays at the pub that night and, whilst investigating a noise downstairs, is accosted by Neil.
Iris and Katie visit the Solicitor's office, only to find it abandoned with no forwarding address or phone number.
He explains that 400 years ago, an ancient brotherhood tried a young conjurer as a witch and burned her at the stake.
The members of the brotherhood grew sick and died, leaving only one guardian at a time to inherit the curse - the person whose signature is on the deed.
Iris decides to seal the hole shut in order to trap Baghead and stop her using people to gain power.
Baghead turns into Sarah and Neil reveals that, on the night she died, he had sedated her before she decided to drive the car.
It is revealed that the events of the story have been carefully orchestrated by Baghead who, as Iris, is finally able to walk free of the building, which burns to the ground.
The cast is led by Freya Allan, Peter Mullan, Anne Müller, Jeremy Irvine and Ruby Barker.
[5][6] The cast also includes Julika Jenkins, Saffron Burrows, Svenja Young and Ned Dennehy.
Similarly, Anton Bitel of Sight and Sound remarked "Baghead comes with a suitably intangible setting: an eerily depopulated, gothically lit, once divided Berlin where almost no one speaks German.